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DRAGO DESCENDING
Genre: Dark Mystery/Horror • 978-1-58124-717-6 Author: Greg F. Gifune • Cover: Ken Delnero Trade Paperback, 190 pgs. Amazon.com, $13.99 eBook (popular formats): fictionwise.com, $4.95
Private Investigator David Drago is a former policeman and Gulf War veteran struggling with his combat experiences, his time spent in the psychological ward of a veteran's hospital, and the darkness of his past. When he is approached by a mysterious client who hires him to locate his missing fiancé, Jesse Greenlaw, Drago hesitantly takes the case. The problem, Jesse is also David's former girlfriend, and an integral part of the murky past still haunting him. Drago's investigation leads him into a labyrinth of violence, sexual intrigue, black witchcraft, and Satanism.
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 Greg F. Gifune's work has received multiple recommendations for the Bram Stoker Award and the International Horror Guild Award, as well as a nomination for the British Fantasy Award. His short fiction has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, and he is also author of several short story collections and novels, includingDown To Sleep, Heretics, Drago Descending, The Bleeding Season, and Saying Uncle.
"Drago Descending is . . . the rarest breed of narrative—a story unaware of genre . . . Gifune's exploration of madness, spiritual warfare, pornography, and the paradoxical beauty and devastation of human relationships is a perfect marriage of form and subject. A first rate thriller!" —William Simmons. Cemetery Dance Magazine
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